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Sunday Services
 
8:00 AM
Celebrant: 
The Rev. Noah H. Evans
Preacher:  Mia Benjamin, Emmaus Fellow  
LEM: June Pietrantoni
Usher:
Wesley Foote, Sr. 
Altar Guild: June Pietrantoni

10:00 AM
Celebrant: 
The Rev. Noah H. Evans
Preacher:  Mia Benjamin, Emmaus Fellow 
Minister of Music:
Ruth Roper   
LEM I:
Margaret Smist    
LEM II:
Mia Benjamin   
 Lector I*:
Louis Carson   
  Lector II*:
Ann Frenning-Kossuth  
Acolytes:
C.J. Nwachukwu, Brianna Nwachukwu and Cassidy Maguire 
Ushers:
Jill Capuccio and Vin Maganzini    
Altar Guild
Margaret Smist and Dottie Palladino  
Vestry Person of the Day:
Branwen Smith-King   
Coffee Hour Hosts:  
Steve Duggan, coffee and the Cross Choi family, food  
Counters:
Linda Foote and Bryan Spence

5:00 PM 
Celebrant and Preacher: 
The Rev. Noah H. Evans  
Musician: Nicholas Hayes  
Altar Guild:  Mia Benjamin and Carolyn Rogers
 
*click on link to prepare for this week's readings  
Birthdays
 
Esther Brownsmith (10/25); Vin Maganzini and Malinda Walsh (10/26); Kathe Swaback (10/28); Anne Deveney (10/29); Ella Daly, Elisabeth Hunt, Christopher Hunt, Thomas Quick and Elaine Sheets (10/31).
 
If we do not have your birthday, please contact the church office at 781-396-7215 or office@gracemedford.org  

Welcome.
Please join us at
 Grace Church!

Services are Sunday at 8 AM, 10 AM and
5 PM.  Sunday School begins at 9:45.  Children join the service to celebrate the Eucharist.

What is the Community Preservation Act? (Medford Ballot Question #1)
Sunday, following the 10 AM service.
The Community Preservation Act is going to be question #1, on the back of the ballot in November, in Medford. Alicia Hunt has been very involved with getting it on the ballot and will explain the measure and what it would mean for Medford. Join her to learn more about this ballot proposal.
Sue Maltz, Vestry member and stewardship committee chair, preached on Sunday, October 18th to kick-off the Grace Church 2016 Stewardship season.  She shared her own message about faith, her journey back to the church and generosity.  Don't miss this great message! 

You can find all of our stewardship materials at www.gracemedford.org/stewardship
Grace Medford Women's Retreat 2015
By Barbara Novaes, Grace Church Parishoner

This year's Grace Medford Women's Retreat was especially endearing to me, as for the first time my daughter was of age and able to attend. Marina and Molly represented our young women. Our ages ranged from 18 to 80ish. It was a wonderful opportunity to ... read more

Outreach Corner 
The next opportunity to help at St. Luke's Community Dining in Chelsea is October 31.  Please contact Lisa Carson with any questions or to volunteer to help.
 
Food is needed for the food pantries that Grace Episcopal Church supports. The items for October 25 are tuna or cereal and for November 1 are coffee or tea.

Semi-Annual Clothing Pantry
This fall our pantry will be held on Saturday, October 24 from 9:00 AM to noon.  Read more 
Kid's Corner  

Childcare offering during Wednesdays@Grace: we want to offer a stimulating, interesting class after dinner on Wednesday nights to our third and fourth graders, AND we want to provide care for younger kids who've been in Godly Play before dinner, but whose parents will be staying later for Adult Education. So guess what? From now until Thanksgiving, we're going to try offering child care for younger kids (preschool to second grade), staffed by a GraceWorks Afterschool program teacher. Third- and fourth-graders will have their own class, using an age-appropriate curriculum, during the after-dinner session, from 6:45-8pm. If there's plenty of interest in continuing to provide childcare during Adult Education, we'll keep it going. So come one, come all! 
Wednesdays @ Grace
Godly Play 1-Preschool-Kindergarten, 5:30-6:15
Godly Play 2-Grades 1-2, 5:30-6:15
Dinner, 6-6:45
Godly Play 3-children up to and including 4th grade, 6:45-8
Rite 13 youth group (grades 5-7), 6:45-8
J2A youth group (grades 8-9), 6:45-8
Adult Education classes, 6:45-8

The Reformation and What's the Big Deal About it with The Rev. Dr. Maggie Arnold
October 28, 6:45PM Although October 31st may perhaps be celebrated, in isolated pockets of the country, as Halloween, it is much more famously and appropriately remembered as the beginning of the Reformation, when a sixteenth-century monk named Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the church in Wittenberg, Germany, protesting corruption... read more

"Our Stories of Money"
November 4, 2015, 6:45pm
led by The Reverend Noah H. Evans 
We all learned lessons and narratives about money and finance from our families, upbringing and life experiences...
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"Where your treasure is,
your heart is there also"
November 11, 2015, 6:45pm
led by Sara Folta, Grace Church parishioner  
Everyone knows that your treasure is where you heart is.  Who would disagree?
But what about all your expenses and investments?  Are they in line with your values?  read more 
Other Announcements

Book Club
The Women's Book Club meets every third Thursday. The following are the books for the next few months: November 19 - Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner; December 17 - the movie Desk Set, a 1957 romantic comedy with Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy; January 21 -The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown; February 18 - The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran.
 For more information, see Genita at the 10 am church service or email her at
pawleyslegacy@verizon.net.

Dancing through the Decades to benefit the Journey to Adulthood program
Friday October 30th from 6:30 PM to 10 PM. This is a fun-filled night for all ages!
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All Souls Service
Join us on Sunday, November 8 at 5:00 PM for our marking of the Feast of All Souls. During this special service we will remember those who have died, including reading the names of those who have been buried from Grace Church over the last few years. If you have other names you would like read, please send them to the parish office at office@gracemedford.org. Please bring photographs or picture of those who have died to place around the altar during this service.

KOKA Christmas Wreaths
Once again the Knights will be decorating Christmas wreaths for sale. Not too early to be thinking of Christmas, BJ's is already. Wreaths will be ready for pickup on December 3rd and 4th and will be $14 each. Look for the order blank in the newsletter or in Wiles Hall. Orders are due November 29, 2015.